Launch: A Free “Coming Soon” WordPress Theme

Here at WP Kube we’re big on providing you with the best WordPress resources, tutorials, guides, how-to’s, and more. It’s all about delivering value to our awesome WordPress community and in particular, to you, our loyal reader.

Today we’re excited to offer something completely new – a free WordPress theme designed to help to kick-off your next website, product or service.

Introducing Launch. It’s really good.

Designed by Jason Schuller and developed right here at WP Kube, Launch is a single-page WordPress theme built with intention and purpose. Although simple, Launch brings a lot to the table with it’s modern design, clean code and perfect responsiveness. You can check out the demo here.

As soon as you’re ready to start building your community, just download the free template, add your details, and start collecting subscribers.

Key Features of our Launch Theme include:

Clean, simple, and focused design

Compatible with MailChimp

Perfectly responsive

Compatible with all modern browsers

Easily customized

Beautifully Simple & Completely Customizable

Launch doesn’t just look great – it’s easy to set up too. All theme features are easily managed through the customizer, giving you full control over everything that’s important – favicon, logo, headline and sub-head, it’s all there. A default 1280x960px image is included with the theme but can easily be changed to anything you desire and as your project progresses, you can update the % complete indicator to keep your visitors up to date.

The whole purpose of Launch is, of course, to build your audience during the development phase, and all you’ll need to get started is a MailChimp account. Simply drop your API key and List ID into the appropriate fields and you’re ready to roll. In case email just isn’t your thing, there’s a check box to disable the form. Social links and email are optional and the footer text can be updated to anything you desire (although we’d love the credit).

Download the Launch Theme

Grab your free copy of our Launch WordPress theme today (for personal or commercial use) – all we ask is that you tweet or share this post :).

Hi, thanks for the great theme, really appreciate the work you’re putting out.
Have just downloaded and uploaded this theme and would like to check with you how do I go about increasing the size of the Site Title.
Can’t seem to be able to do it in the customise page.
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.

Currently there’s no easy way to hide the title. It would require quite a bit of customization unfortunately. I’d recommend finding a freelancer who could help you out with this task. http://studio.envato.com have a big selection of WP freelancers.

Please check our website http://www.spacedecode.com
The website is pointed to a 3rd party service and we pointed the website using the DNS. This is the issue below. Could you please assist:

Font from origin ‘http://productlaunch.cloudhosting.rsaweb.co.za’ has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ‘http://spacedecode.com’ is therefore not allowed access.

I have installed your theme but I am having an issue whereby I cannot upload any images into the media Library, either directly in the Library or in the Customizer, when the Launch theme is active. I tested this by deactivating your theme and then activating twenty fifteen, where I have no problem uploading images. I also cannot see any previously uploaded media in the Library when the Launch theme is activated.

Hi Simon,
I know its been a while since you wrote the post – but where exactly did you change the social links? I am a newbie and not sure how to do it. Figured I’ll ask someone who has done it successfully, if you do not mind taking the time?

Fabulous looking coming soon page…had me drooling!
However, a small newbie query here: If this is a theme and not a plugin, how can I have this installed and then install my actual theme that I need for making our website. I don’t understand…. Help!

I’d like to know if I could use this template just to set only a background image. I mean with no site logo, no progress bar, no text, no social icons… Only the background image. If this were possible, which would be the most appropriate size for the image?

Hey guys! I’m brand new to web building. Using wordpress through my purchased domain/hosting with bluehost. I installed the template which works fine on my desktop but it does not seem to be responsive on mobile. I also wanted to change the logo size but I do not know how to access my style.css file.

Thanks, Devesh! I’m still having issues with the responsiveness on mobile. Not sure if it’s related to a plug-in via WordPress or what. It seems to be placing a generic “Nothing Found” WordPress blog post over my template.

Thanks you for your amazing landing page, love it!
Just one thing: I have the latest version, and yet no MailChimp subscribers are coming through when I test it. Any ideas where is the issues ?
I ve already read the feedback and it seems like i’m not alone in this situation.
How may i fix it ?

Hi, love the theme, have installed it, but same issue, cant get the form to work, have got my API from mailchimp, and my list is set up with the same name as my MailChimp List ID but its not pulling in any user email addresses. Any idea how I can get this working? Be greatly appreciated.
thanks
Ian

Hi, I’ve increased the size of the logo on my site by changing the background-size under #header .content span.logo, but this doesn’t seem to affect the size of the logo when viewing on a mobile device. How can I fix that?

Hey Guys! Awesome Job! Coming Soon Pages have never been easier to implement!
Now, I have a question. I need to add an issuu document on the page and when I do it shows a blank “div” with the same dimentions but not the document itself. Is there anyway I could add the issuu document on the page? Thank you for your time!

Check your PHP version. If it is less than 5.4 then you should probably update it.
You can also make a workaround:
1. Open file: wp-content/themes/launch/assets/helpers/post-subscribe.php
2. Go to line 252
3. Change it to be “$result = $MailChimp->post(“lists/$mailchimp_list_id/members”, array(’email_address’ => $email, ‘status’ => ‘pending’ ));”

This change is about changing new PHP 5.4 array syntax […] to old syntax array(…).
This works for me 🙂
Hope that helps.

It could be because of the your hosting / PHP version, make sure that you’re not running on version 5.4 or less. If you’re still having issues, send me the login info (via our contact page), and I’ll take a look .

Hi, I cannot use Mailchimp plugin eventhough I entered Mailchimp API key and List ID. When I check console, I see “XMLHttpRequest cannot load http:///wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=add_mailchimp. No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ” is therefore not allowed access”

How can I fix this? A similar problem happened with fonts – the domain name site cannot display ionicons corrently. I fixed this by changing style.css to use CDN ionicon files instead of the local files.

I have it fully functional and mail chimp is working, but I was wondering if there was a way to have a pop up come up after submitting the email so that I could let subscribers know to check their email for a subscription confirmation?

I’m having similar issues as mentioned by other users here. The e-mail form doesn’t seem to work – whenever an email address is input, nothing happens. This seems to be a very faulty design – can you please explain what can be done to fix this?

It seems multiple people are experiencing the same problem (regarding the Mailchimp e-mail sign-up) where an X pops up every time an e-mail is entered. It’s been multiple weeks now and the designer still hasn’t responded?

I’m working on building my first site. I set up the Launch Theme and I really like it. The MailChimp integration seems to be working fine. I appreciate that you are offering this theme without charge.

Unfortunately it seems that either I misunderstood how the theme was to be used or there is some setting in the theme or in WordPress that I am not aware of. I thought that I would be able to work on my site in the background — without anyone else being able to see the work in progress — while the Launch coming soon page was up and running for any site visitors to see. However, it seems that either the Launch theme can be active or the theme that I am using to build the site can be active So I am not able to have the Launch theme representing my site while I am building the site behind closed doors, so to speak.

I need help though, the mailchimp integration is … not working. Added the API and the list id… entered the email address on the sign up … it says it did what I wanted but it doesn’t record the data in mailchimp!

I just installed the plugin version today and was able to get it all customized and can preview it while customizing it, but when I go view my page it is still showing the theme that is installed, rather than the launch page that I made.

Hi guys,
Great theme – downloaded the plugin so I can work on my website in the meantime. However, it is like the theme is too big for my computer 🙂 I can barely see the progress bar and the logo is just out.. Im a complete newbie, so any help is appreciated!

Hi guys, Thank you so much for this theme! Quick question: I’d like to add a page to the site for blog posts, but this theme turns every existing page on the site into the homepage. Is there an easy way to make it so I can also have blog posts using this theme, or does that defeat the purpose of the simplicity of this theme? Thanks! No worries if no!

I have almost finished my launch page which is extremely easy to use- thanks guys- however in addition to the twitter and facebook logos how do i add instagram and pinterest to this please asboth of these are more relevant to my site. thanks.

I had some problems getting the correct URL for mailchimp when following the link as instructed. After a lot of time playing around I managed to get it working … sharing just in case someone else has my same issue.
The instructions on the suggested link (http://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/share-your-signup-form) pointed to Mailchimp > [ select list ] > Signup forms > General forms > Sign up form URL … that did work for me (or possibly I didn’t understand them?)

To get my working URL I had to go to Mailchimp > [ select list ] > Signup forms > Embedded forms… then go through the code given in the box titled “Copy/paste onto your site” and copy the form action. Looks something like the below, the part in ” “.

Any thoughts on how to do this? I jumped into the header.php file and was trying different things (mainly leaving the portion of the code OUT, but when I did this it wiped out the header completely and would not even display the logo anymore… :/)

Anyway, cool theme. Really well done. Any help on this last bit would be appreciated… thnx sir!

I have added the theme, well i installed the plugin and that worked and I can see the and edit the theme under the customization of the theme I have, however when I look at the site it shows the basic theme and not the pretty page I have made.

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